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Re: [Sheflug] Scanner for Sale *Works with Linux*
On Mon, 2003-04-21 at 16:41, James Mears wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have a Plustek Optic Pro 4830P 4800DPI Flatbed Parallel port scanner
> for sale.
Aha!! Afraid _I'm_ not directly interested because I've a parallel Optic
Pro 4831P but I was wondering how to get rid of it since my attempts to
run it under VMware were completely unsuccessful and wasn't aware there
were any linux drivers. But I am very interested to hear we might be
able to use it after all...!
> It is in near perfect condition (no box) and has power pack, parallel
> cable and Win 3.11/95/98 drivers CD (No drivers for Win 2000/XP).
>
> This scanner also works on Linux using the parallel port drivers for
> SANE but you will have to build the driver from source. (I will help out
> where I can with this) You could also check
I know it is a bit cheeky, but if you and/or Craig could give me some
tips on how to build the driver that would be good. The plustek driver
documentation is a little unclear but I _think_ the following is true:
1. the parallel port support is not included with sane so the
plustek-sane AND sane both need to be (re)compiled from source
2. latest version will work with sane-1.0.8 upwards (which is what we've
got)
3. the latest source dist is plustek-sane-0.45-5.tar.gz ; but this is
not version 0.45 but 0.42 (??) ; anyway I've unpacked it and looked at
the documentation which is rather out of date.
Is this right?
Now I have a ximian rpm installation of sane (1.0.8); it seems that I
will have to remove this as it doesn't allow adding plustek parallel
support. Ideally I'd rebuild the rpm and install that but that is a
counsel of perfection and I don't have a few hours to spare learning how
to do it. However all of the installation instructions relate to
versions of sane <= 1.0.3 so I'm not quite sure how to proceed.
Or can I get hold of sane-devel and use that instead? I'd prefer to
stick with rpms if possible. Not that there appears to be a ximian
sane-devel package for SuSE 7.3 of course...
Matt.
> with Craig Andrews if you need backup that this scanner does work on
> Linux because he also had the same model!
>
> Linux SANE Driver: http://www.gjaeger.de/scanner/plustek.html
>
> All I want is £15 Buyer collects or I can bring to next sheflug meeting.
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